The Control Room

The Control Room cast — a character guide to the cat-and-mouse thriller starring Iain De Caestecker and Joanna Vanderham.

This starring role as Young Gabe in The Control Room is Harvey Calderwood’s impressive television debut. “We meet Leigh in the opening scenes in the control room and learn that she is overseeing everything that is going on. This couple run a rural pub and may hold the key to both Sam and Gabe's secrets. He’s frozen in this world where he hasn’t been able to move on emotionally from the loss. He is the second-in-command - he looks over the call handlers and is there for assistance when they need it. Taj Atwal stars as Gabe’s boss and lover, Leigh. Their coworkers are quick to tease them about their budding romance, but from the first episode it seems that Leigh is keener on Gabe than he is on her. There are small hints and nods to the relationship that she has with Gabe, but we don’t see the full manifestation of that straightaway. You’ll think you’ll know where it’s going but I can guarantee you’re wrong as the twists and turns are really exciting. As Gabe attempts to get the caller’s details, she recognizes him and asks ‘Gabo, is that you?’ before hanging up. Explaining how Gabe goes from a simple life to a double life, Iain says: “Gabe is a normal, nice, quite shy and introverted guy. “As the story progresses, you learn he’s quite stuck in the past. Forced to think on his feet, Gabe makes the risky decision to track down Sam, triggering a mile-a-minute mission that derails his life…

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Maybe it was Peter Mullan’s performance, maybe it was the setting in his hometown of Glasgow, but something connected. “I remember there was one specific metal ship I’d always remembered from when I was younger, I was just peeking around the place all night looking.” “They’d had a little girl while we were filming and it felt very fitting to me, after everything Fitz and Simmons were put through in the show, that they and their daughter would live happily ever after.” “Everyone always wanted to play Dougal cos that was the most fun part, but I would usually play Ted. That’s where I remember starting.” There was one scene in The Control Room with Stuart Bowman he remembers that he just couldn’t get. “The thriller stuff is the thing that makes your heart race and keeps you on the edge of your seat,” says de Caestecker, but at its core he sees The Control Room as a love story and its writer Nick Leather ( Murdered for Being Different) as a romantic. All actors talk like this in interviews, of course, but from de Caestecker, the fondness and gratitude actually ring true. It felt good playing him.” So much so that when the story required him to play an evil, alt-reality Fitz, it felt like a betrayal. At the start of The Control Room, Gabe’s isn’t much of a life at all, de Caestecker tells Den of Geek over Zoom. “From the very start, I don’t think his life’s good and he’s cheerily plodding along and then this terrible thing just grabs him by the neck. He’s still very fond of Fitz, a character he describes as “like me, but a much better version of me. Gabe’s story opens at his desk, but it follows him home in every sense of the word. Emergency call handling is one of the highest-stress jobs that take place in an office environment.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Coronation Street actor Iain De Caestecker leads the cast of The Control Room as Gabe, with Joanna Vanderham (Legends of Tomorrow) co ...

The Control Room starts this weekend on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. How many episodes of The Control Room are there on BBC One? Gabe must work under pressure to find out who she is before making a decision that could potentially have "devastating" consequences for those involved.

Caestecker is a Scottish actor, who portrays introverted lead character Gabe. The 34-year-old actor is known for his roles in the films Shell, In Fear, Not ...

Robbo - Daniel Cahill Anthony - Daniel Portman The Control Room will be shown over three consecutive nights starting from 9pm tonight. Leigh - Taj Atwal I just had to know how it ended.' Sam - Joanna Vanderham

Brand-new BBC thriller The Control Room is set in Scotland and features numerous impressive locations, but just where were those scenes filmed?

I think we had to just accept the fact that we were going to look like drowned rats by the end of it on one of those days." "I think it's a lovely opportunity to get show off how beautiful Scotland is and the people that are there. Vanderham explained: "One of the nights we were filming night shoots, and this mist had settled on the Christmas trees. the bar’s been raised since I was last there for sure because we have a lot of productions filming there. "But out there, there can be more of an emphasis on being an actor off screen rather than on screen sometimes, and all the other stuff that comes along with it. De Caestecker said: "There is something about going home that you feel a bit more at ease there.

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There are moments, in fact, when the latter feels almost like a bonus to the melancholic mood piece that is carefully constructed underneath. The relationship between the young Gabe (Harvey Calderwood) and young Sam (Farrah Thomas) – two lonely, sorrowing youngsters who find something in each other beyond even the normal intensity of nearly adolescent friendship – is also sweetly and convincingly drawn. The rest of the hour (and the next, for I have looked ahead) is a nicely worked illustration of the tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive, and the cropper we can come when attempting to keep a promise to a beloved friend. The whole thing is threaded through with a genuine sense of grief caused by deaths from both natural and unnatural causes, which is especially marked in a wonderful scene between De Caestecker and Bowman in the second episode. The plot is a meaty, succulent thing that does not threaten to sprawl. Sam (Joanna Vanderham) and Gabe eventually reunite at a burned-out cabin in the ersatz woods (actually a Christmas tree farm), whose charred remains are obviously central to the hostility and secrecy that surrounds their history – and pervades their present.

Joanna Vanderham stands out in this BBC drama, which is let down by too many flashbacks and disjointed storytelling.

After the phone calls, they meet up, secretly, and she confirms that she has killed a bloke she was in a relationship with and who attacked her, and the guy is known to them both. All that said, the performances of the leads redeem a lot of the slow pace and disjointed storytelling. Dead-eyed and devious, she is slowly manipulating the increasingly frightened Gabriel. It’s like watching a python swallowing a rabbit – disturbing but compelling. Then he gets a call from a distressed young woman who seems to have a dying, and then dead, man on her hands. There is no better symbol of the creative impoverishment of television drama departments than this: cops, and occasionally others, living and mentally suffering through sequences of haunting, repetitive, horrific experiences, like candidates in Tory leadership elections. Gabriel (Iain De Caestecker) is a nice young chap working in an ambulance control room, doing the usual sort of pre-triage work with admirable sensitivity – delivering babies by remote control, coaxing idiot children off roofs, that sort of thing.

When emergency services phone operator Gabe receives a suspicious call from a woman he knows, his life is turned upside down.

Performances from both De Caestecker and Vanderham were exquisite, balancing the bittersweetness of finding each other with the stress of an agonisingly high-octane situation – after all, this was no straightforward reunion. So when she called the control room back the next day, his strange breakdown in front of colleagues – “I’m going to be sick. On picking up, Gabriel encountered the voice of a panicked young woman; straining for every disjointed scrap of information, he gathered that she was calling about an injured man.

An emergency call handler is forced to confront his past when he receives a call from a woman (Joanna Vanderham) who has killed someone and appears to know ...

An emergency call handler is forced to confront his past when he receives a call from a woman (Joanna Vanderham) who has killed someone and appears to know him. The Control Room continues on BBC One on Monday at 9pm. [INSIGHT] Read more: The Control Room episode 1 cast: Who is in the cast of the BBC seri... The Control Room is a BBC drama split over three nights consecutively and features numerous flashbacks to help viewers understand the connection between the call handler and the caller. THE CONTROL ROOM premiered on BBC One on Sunday night but the first instalment of this three-part thriller seemed to "confuse" viewers.

The new three-parter stars Iain De Caestecker as Gabe, an emergency call handler whose world is turned upside down when he receives a desperate call from a ...

Have seen a lot of tweets slating the first episode but stick with it, it's definitely worth it," while another praised the final episode, adding: "Just finished all three episodes of #TheControlRoom. Tense, stressful, twisty, and WOW that last episode. Fantastic performance by Iain De Caestecker and thrilling twists and turns." Kept me on the edge of my seat for three hours straight and did not let go.

Joanna Vanderham stands out in this BBC drama, which is let down by too many flashbacks and disjointed storytelling.

After the phone calls, they meet up, secretly, and she confirms that she has killed a bloke she was in a relationship with and who attacked her, and the guy is known to them both. All that said, the performances of the leads redeem a lot of the slow pace and disjointed storytelling. Dead-eyed and devious, she is slowly manipulating the increasingly frightened Gabriel. It’s like watching a python swallowing a rabbit – disturbing but compelling. Then he gets a call from a distressed young woman who seems to have a dying, and then dead, man on her hands. There is no better symbol of the creative impoverishment of television drama departments than this: cops, and occasionally others, living and mentally suffering through sequences of haunting, repetitive, horrific experiences, like candidates in Tory leadership elections. Gabriel (Iain De Caestecker) is a nice young chap working in an ambulance control room, doing the usual sort of pre-triage work with admirable sensitivity – delivering babies by remote control, coaxing idiot children off roofs, that sort of thing.

Main character Gabe, played by Glaswegian actor Iain De Caestecker, spent a majority of the first episode running around the streets of the city in a trance, ...

More comments read: "Sorry BBC but what a load of absolute rubbish … The Control Room … is. It grabs you from the start and doesn't let go. The writing and acting are brilliant. The episode was full of twists and turns, from flashbacks to car crashes and even a police chase. I still don’t understand the point of it so I don’t think I’ll be watching episode 2! Under pressure to work out who she is, he makes a decision that may have devastating consequences."